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It’s Friday WSY Family and lurkers! It’s time for the weekend. I hope you are enjoying the theme and music of the open threads this week. Mos Def was born Dante Terrell Smith on December 11, 1973. He is an American actor and MC.  Mos Def started his hip hop career in a group called Urban Thermo Dynamics, after which [...]

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Thursday is here! It’s almost the weekend! This week WEE have been highlighting intelligent rap and eloquent MCs. The Roots is an American hip hop band formed in 1987 by Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter and Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania. They are famed for beginning with a jazzy, eclectic approach to hip hop which still includes live [...]

It’s Hump Day! This week WSY has been paying tribute to intelligent rappers and rappers who were great MC’s. Arrested Development  is an American alternative hip hop group founded by Speech and Headliner as a positive, Afrocentric alternative to the gangsta rap popular in the early 1990s. It took the group three years, five months and two days to [...]

Hey WSY Family and lurkers! This week theme’s showcases intelligent and/or easygoing rap. Music that brings about a positive message. Whether the songs centered around love, politics, or life these songs are performed in a positive way. Bonita Applebum was the first single from A Tribe Called Quest’s debut album People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. [...]

It’s Monday and the start of a new week.  Since we have been surrounded by idiocy, this week’s  topic will focus on rap groups and rappers who have have intelligent lyrics in their songs, also known as intelligent rap. These are rap groups and artists who took the concept of  stringing words together coherently and [...]

H/T to Blackwaterdog…..this interview has not gotten the attention it deserved.

Happy Sunday WSY Family and lurkers!  Today’s open thread will focus on something inspirational. Mary Mary is a three time Grammy-award winning American gospel music duo, consisting of sisters Erica Atkins-Campbell (born April 29, 1972)and Tina Atkins-Campbell (born May 1, 1974). The duo are often credited along with Kirk Franklin for broadening the fan base ofurban contemporary gospel in the [...]

This week, walk step by step with the President as he speaks up for unemployed Americans, congratulates this year’s WNBA champs, talks with astronaut John Glenn about space exploration, meets with British Prime Minister Cameron, signs the historic Wall Street Reform bill into law, signs the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery bill into law, signs the Emergency [...]

Good morning WSY Fam! Hope everybody is enjoying a relaxing weekend. The WSY Obama Men series concludes today with Mr. Eric Holder. Eric H. Holder, Jr. was sworn in as the 82nd Attorney General of the United States on February 3, 2009 by Vice President Joe Biden.  He is the first African American to occupy [...]

Good Morning and Happy Friday WSY Fam! Today’s Obama Man is Ambassador Ron Kirk. Ambassador Kirk was nominated to be United States Trade Representative by President Barack Obama and was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 18, 2009.